Search results for "erityisopetus"

Ensuring Diverse User Experiences and Accessibility While Developing the TeSLA e-Assessment System

2019

The TeSLA project, with its new, innovative approaches for e-assessment, offers a great possibility for increasing the educational equality and making higher education studies available for all. It has been estimated that 10–15% of students in higher education institutions have some disabilities or special educational needs. At online universities or in online programmes, the number is even higher. These numbers emphasise the importance of the universal design for learning as a leading principle while developing the digital learning environments and e-assessment procedures. In this chapter, we describe the key elements of ensuring the accessibility of the TeSLA e-assessment system during th…

Learning about students in co-teaching teams

2021

Teachers are facing increasingly diverse classrooms globally. To support all students efficiently, teachers need to know their students. Drawing from the literature of teacher learning and inclusive education, we explored how teachers learn to know their students in a co-teaching context. Analysis of interviews and diaries of five co-teaching teams showed that teachers learned about their students in a co-taught classroom by observing students and by obtaining knowledge from and co-constructing knowledge with their co-teaching partner. Moreover, teachers’ learning led to shared responsibility for the student and a better understanding of student diversity. Thus, sharing knowledge of student…

Special education without teaching assistants? : The development process for students with autism

2020

Many children may need the help of another person to attend school. It is common for children with disabilities to receive help from a teaching assistant at school. Assistants are provided in many countries as a legal right and are often publicly funded. It is also widely assumed that having teaching assistants in the class is an effective and cost-efficient way to support students with disabilities. In this study, the research task was to monitor and document the development process carried out by the teacher, with the aim of making visible the development of a more dynamic classroom interaction. The focus in this development process was the teacher’s idea of minimizing the conta…

Erityisopetus kuntien peruskouluissa : kuntien taloudellisten ja poliittisten tekijöiden yhteys kunnallisissa peruskouluissa annettuun erityisopetuks…

2007

Individual behavior support in positive behavior support schools in Finland

2023

One objective in Finnish basic education is for pupils with disabilities or behavioral problems to be able to participate in mainstream education and ordinary classrooms. Positive behavior support (PBS) is an approach that offers multi-tiered behavior support for pupils. In addition to providing support at a universal level, educators need to have the necessary skills to provide more intensive individual support for pupils who need it. Check-in/Check-out (CICO) is a research-based individual support system that is widely used in PBS schools. The Finnish application of CICO includes an individual behavior assessment process for pupils with persistent challenging behaviors. In this article, w…

How do educational reforms change the share of students in special education? Trends in special education in Finland

2019

Recent European and global trends in education have been to promote inclusive education and expand education, resulting in the increased provision of special education. In promoting inclusive education, recent special education reforms have also aimed to curtail the rise in identification rates for students in special education, for example, by focusing more on early support and discontinuing fiscal incentives to identify students with special educational needs. Using official special education statistics, we studied how Finland’s special education system reforms changed the share of students in special education. In addition, we examined variations in special education provisions among mu…

How accurate are teachers and support specialists when judging students' literacy skills? Special educational service as an external factor influenci…

2022

The aim of the study was to examine the accuracy of Estonian teachers' and support specialists' judgements of students' spelling skills and reading fluency and to investigate the provision of special education services to students as a factor influencing teachers' judgements. The sample included 11 classroom teachers, 8 support specialists, and 187 third-grade students. The judgements were collected using scales, and students' literacy skills were assessed using group and individual tests. The results indicated that judgements of reading fluency were less accurate than those of spelling skills. In addition, the provision of special education services influenced teachers' judgements, directi…

Kolmiportainen tuki - säästöä inkluusion varjolla? : luokanopettajien käsityksiä lakimuutoksen 642/2010 vaikutuksista oppilaiden saamaan tukeen ja op…

2014

Tuomioja, P. Kolmiportainen tuki- säästöä inkluusion varjolla. Luokanopettaji-en käsityksiä lakimuutoksen 642/2010 vaikutuksista oppilaiden saamaan tukeen ja opettajien työhön. Jyväskylän yliopisto. Kokkolan yliopistokeskus Chydenius. Kasvatustieteen pro gradu – tutkielma. 81 s. Kolmiportainen tuki muutti kouluissa oppilaille annettavan oppimisen, kasvun ja koulunkäynnin tuen muotoja olennaisesti vuoden 2011 alusta, jolloin laki perusopetuslain muutoksesta astui voimaan. Tämän tutkimuksen tavoitteena on selvittää, millaisena opetushenkilökunta näkee kolmiportaisen tuen hengen ja sen toteutumisen käytännössä. Tämän tutkimuksen aineisto on peräisin Opetusalan Ammattijärjestön (OAJ) teettämäst…

Oppimisen ja koulunkäynnin tuen järjestelyt kouluissa : rehtorien arviot tukijärjestelyjen toimivuudesta

2015

Esiteltävässä tutkimuksessa tarkasteltiin tukijärjestelyjen toimivuutta perusopetuksessa rehtorien (N = 335) arvioimana. Aineisto kerättiin kyselylomakkeella syksyllä 2012. Rehtoreiden arvioita tukijärjestelyjen toimivuudesta selitti eniten se, millaisia tukijärjestelyjen arvioitiin olleen ennen lakiuudistusta. Koulun osallistuminen Tehostetun ja erityisen tuen kehittämistoimintaan (KELPO-hanke) oli yhteydessä myönteisempiin arvioihin oppimissuunnitelmien käytön, osa-aikaisen erityisopetuksen, kodin kanssa tehtävän yhteistyön, oppilashuoltotyöryhmän ja opetuksen eriyttämisen toimivuudesta. Rehtoreiden arvioiden mukaan tukijärjestelyistä toimivat kouluissa huonoiten yhdessä opettaminen ja op…

Policy-practice gap in participation of students with disabilities in Ethiopia's formal vocational education programme

2017

In Ethiopia, individuals with disabilities have limited access to educational and vocational training opportunities due to environmental, attitudinal and institutional barriers. The overarching purpose of the study was to investigate the status of inclusiveness of relevant policy and legal instruments of the study countries and their practicality in vocational education programmes. The specific aims of the study were to: explore the extent to which the issue of special educational and training needs for persons with disabilities is addressed in the education and training policy of Ethiopia, specifically focusing on technical and vocational education and training (TVET); investigate prevaili…